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XRP, the native token of the XRP Ledger network closely linked to Ripple, hit a six-year high on Wednesday as bitcoin (BTC) hit $100,000, with traders encouraged by the highly anticipated global inflation report. US CPI this morning. The token briefly rose above $3 early in the US trading session for the first time since […]

With just days until the second inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, crypto policy groups are preparing to shift into high gear. Blockchain associations from eight U.S. states announced Tuesday the creation of the North American Blockchain Association (NABA), an organization aimed at providing consistent crypto policy recommendations to the federal government. “A few years

PK Press Club – The United States reported a higher-than-expected Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December, showing a monthly increase of 0.4% after seasonal adjustment, beating the forecast of 0.3%. The annual CPI rate rose to 2.9%, the highest since July 2024, marking its third consecutive monthly increase. Markets, both traditional and cryptocurrency markets, welcomed

US prosecutors have asked a federal judge to allow the return of nearly 80% of the 119,754 bitcoins stolen in the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. In a court filing filed Tuesday, prosecutors said the 94,643 bitcoins recovered by the government from the original wallet used by the hacker, Ilya Lichtenstein, could be paid

On January 20, 2025, the United States will open a new chapter in more ways than one. While the nation will focus on the inauguration of President Trump as the 47th president, the U.S. financial sector will celebrate the resignation of Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler. As a member of the

Decentralization is the foundation of blockchain technology, promising a more resilient and censorship-resistant alternative to centralized systems. But are the industry’s leading protocols as decentralized as they claim? Decentralization can be measured across several dimensions. At first glance, the number of entities participating in a network’s block validation or mining process is one of the

PK Press Club – XRP was trading at $2.8664 as of 8:31 a.m. (1:31 p.m. GMT) on the PK Press Club index on Wednesday, up 12.28% on the day. This is the largest one-day percentage gain since December 2, 2024. This increase pushed the market capitalization of XRP up to $159.8036 billion, or 4.76% of

The analyst who wrote this article owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR). Since MicroStrategy (MSTR) became a Bitcoin treasury company in August 2020, it has used three primary instruments to acquire Bitcoin (BTC): cash on hand, on-the-market (ATM) offerings, and bond offerings. convertibles. MicroStrategy’s next method of raising capital is to purchase bitcoin through perpetual preferred

Silver Spring, USA, Maryland, January 15, 2025, PK Press Club BTCS Inc. (Nasdaq: BTCS) (“BTCS” or the “Company”), a leader in blockchain infrastructure and technology, today announced the deployment of its Scaled Validator implementation plan, aimed at improve revenue generation and operational efficiency within its blockchain operations. . Over the past five months, BTCS has

Last June, a flying friend (and aerospace engineer) asked me if I could check out a family friend’s “bitcoin.” He sent me an image of a plastic Bitcoin wallet containing a partially obscured private key. The family friend had received the card as some sort of “gimmick at a conference” and had thrown it in